The applied system-activity approach allows the military organization to be considered not as a closed bureaucratic machine, but as a complex, open system that constantly interacts with the external environment (society, military production, technology, politics). This makes it possible to analyze not only the direct, but also the indirect, delayed consequences of the decisions made, predicting the transformation of the professional potential of military personnel in the present and future periods. It was proved that in the context of digitalization, fundamental changes are being made to the very foundations of interaction between military personnel, who increasingly carries out offi cial activities through the creation and integration of digital information systems. As a result of the digitalization of the military structures of the Russian National Guard, a structural shift in the system of professional potential of military personnel is intensifying. The latter defi nes the transition from a narrow traditional model (including a pre-approved set of military professional knowledge, skills and abilities) to a broad innovative model (including a pre-approved set of military professional knowledge, skills and abilities, supplemented by components of creative values, innovative abilities of military personnel) of the professional potential of military personnel.